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| oasis |
 Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 5:28 pm |
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Location: Hilo,Hawaii
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| im going to quit my job dishwashing at the health food store and try applying for some work at screen printing places. Any suggestions? |
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| newrepublicsteve |
| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:55 pm |
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Location: Birmingham
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well
get used to doing dishes
your first job in shop will be either cleaning screens or catch and fold
you'll be in those postions for 6mo's to a year if you have no knowledge of how to print before hand...
then they'll move you up to the screen room, coating burning, taping blockout, at least another year of this...
then they might let you unload off of the press, then load, and finally you'll get to start pushing ink....
if you really want to learn fast, enroll in a class, while working there, if you have potential your new boss may even pay for it, educational tax deductions are tasty. Then buy a small press at home and keep trying.
oh and ask as many questions as possible both here and at the shop |
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| skinny |
| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:36 pm |
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My 2 cents....
Practice, get a rig together a home. Become good at what you do. The work is out there. You will get dicked on pay and so on at first but in the end you'll do what you want to do , or do dishes. |
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| oasis |
| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:56 pm |
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lol. you must have never done dishes for 8 hours a day. folding shirts would be fun.
i want to work at a screen printing place partly so i can learn first hand (or at least watch) how screen printing is done so i can start doing it myself.
i don't care too much about pay. i am pretty good with this deadly bitch that is a computer, and was thinking i could help with that. do printing places need alot of help with graphics, logos, and general computer work? |
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| ThrashCan |
| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:38 am |
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I was thinking of doing something like this.
I was gonna set aside one day a week to do an internship sorta thing at a screening place and keep my regular job for $. You work for the printer for free in exchange for them teaching you shit, not just how to fold shirts.
Good luck...hows that design comin? |
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| Stranglehold77 |
| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:51 am |
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oasis wrote: lol. you must have never done dishes for 8 hours a day. folding shirts would be fun.
You've never been a "shirt bitch" before. Not fun. It's actually very similar to being a dish pig.
I pulled tape and cleaned screens for about 4 months before I got thrown on a press. It was more or less a trial by fire. The boss hauled me out of the screen room one day and says "watch this" as he prints an expensive soccer jersey. Then he said "Go!" and I was a printer.
check out you local community college. They sometimes offer part time or night courses in the basics of screenprinting. That will tide you all over until I open my school. |
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| newrepublicsteve |
| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:03 pm |
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I have done my fair share of 8 hour dish days, and honestly cleaning screens can be worse.
If you and thrashcan want to, come over for a week you'll get more knowledge then you could ever want.
no fee and you can stay for free, just buy your own food.
I'm serious
and as for doing work up front on computers, unless it's a very small shop, you will hardly ever see the print room, and you'll get made fun of by the printers. The printers all want to sit in the climate controlled office and play on the computers, the art guys all want to be out with printers getting their hands dirty, very blue collar vs. white collar mentality in a lot of shops. Me I love to print, the feeling of creating something that looks good, the feel of the squeege in my hands but I am sick of 18 hours a day of just strait printing as well and I miss my computer... |
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| skinny |
| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:51 pm |
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oasis wrote: you must have never done dishes for 8 hours a day.
I was a cook for 10 years. I was a dishwasher, food preper, server, and all sorts of shitty things. Until I was certified in gourmet quisine. The last four years of my career were spent getting paid good. However when I was done, I got some funds together and started my woodshop. I never worked for a printing shop or a skateboard company, I did have lots of ideas and the will to explore them. I am not making millions yet but who knows? Maybe some day. |
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| Stranglehold77 |
| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 2:24 pm |
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defstarsteve wrote: Me I love to print, the feeling of creating something that looks good, the feel of the squeege in my hands but I am sick of 18 hours a day of just strait printing as well and I miss my computer...
yep, we're brothers from different mothers. |
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| oasis |
| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:26 am |
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| You're all so god damned supportive. Bless you. |
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